What's the difference between blazed and blitzed?

Blazed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Blaze

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The visitors did have a chance to pull another back with three minutes remaining but Henry blazed a free-kick from within range on the left over the bar, summing up Wolves’ day out in the East Midlands.
  • (2) Some 10 fire engines remained on the scene after rushing there to extinguish the many blazes caused by the crash.
  • (3) It’s clear which way the ultra-right community around Ukip wishes to go: their timelines are full of praise for Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders , and blazing with imagery – both real and fake – of migrant riots in France and Sweden.
  • (4) Charlize Theron is set to star opposite Seth MacFarlane in the Ted creator's new comedy western A Million Ways to Die in the West, tipped as a homage to Mel Brooks's classic movie Blazing Saddles .
  • (5) He claimed the blaze was sparked by overheated cables setting light to stacks of toilet roll.
  • (6) In recent years, the violence has shifted away from the terraces into the streets of the capital as rival barras fight for control in a blaze of fire fights, drive-by shootings and mafia-style executions.
  • (7) PA also spoke to Austin Yuill, whoa chef at the art school, who said he believed the blaze started when a spark ignited foam in the building's basement.
  • (8) The adjoining galleries blaze with colour from enamel and gold, jewels and tapestries, stained glass and ceramics.
  • (9) The rest of the show finds Morpurgo – one of the stars of improv hit Austentatious – connecting these snippets to tell the tale of a female cop charged with solving the mystery of that blaze.
  • (10) Also, a wildfire in a rugged area near the Canadian border chased hundreds of people from their homes and burned 10 to 12 structures, and a blaze north-east of Colville scorched almost five square miles and forced evacuations at campgrounds in the area.
  • (11) California is doing well in terms of resources, despite a pair of huge blazes in the north.
  • (12) Forest ecologists say it is no coincidence the Rim fire exploded through areas which had seen few or no blazes in almost a century – an unnatural absence since California's mountain flora evolved to burn .
  • (13) Authorities were preparing for a "worst-case scenario" on Thursday as a blaze dubbed the "Springs fire" menaced the 101 freeway along Camarillo, a city in Ventura County, and raced towards the coast.
  • (14) The present review is first and foremost a tribute to Monroe Eaton and his colleagues for their trail-blazing discovery of a major cause of the atypical pneumonia syndrome and their steadfast vision of its importance.
  • (15) Blaze now has six employees, including Brooke, and would be in profit but for investment in future products, she says, one of which will be a new type of rear light, expanding on her vision to become the company that caters for the urban cyclist.
  • (16) When firefighters arrived to put out the blaze, someone cut through the hose with a knife.
  • (17) The former England striker broke away on a couple of occasions but he blazed the first chance over and the second wide.
  • (18) Simon Mignolet saved well from Mario Gasper and Jonathan Dos Santos blazed over when Cédric Bakambu’s run presented him with an excellent chance seconds before the opener.
  • (19) The worst blaze burned 30 homes in Carlsbad, north of San Diego, and triggered 11,500 evacuation notices.
  • (20) The city appeared, according to a report in the Daily Mirror, “like a battlefield with blazing houses, hordes of refugees, dead cattle and horses and the rattle of automatic weapons”.

Blitzed


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Such extravagant claims will be familiar to the scheme's architect, Richard Rogers, whose designs for the office development beside St Paul's Cathedral in the 1980s were torpedoed when Charles implied in a public speech that the plans were more offensive than the rubble left by the Luftwaffe during the blitz.
  • (2) Bell made the comment in response to a blogpost from Emily Bell , in which the Guardian columnist claimed that "the great VC‑backed media blitz of 2014", including Vox, FiveThirtyEight and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's First Look Media, is being led almost exclusively by white males as it ostensibly aims to reform journalism.
  • (3) For weeks after the budget both Hockey and Abbott blitzed the airwaves, arguing their case in similar terms.
  • (4) Margie Abbott, who rarely speaks to the press, did a media blitz last week, telling one news programme that "Tony Abbott gets women and … the women in Tony Abbott's life certainly get him."
  • (5) Rubio’s allies have vowed to replicate this in coming weeks with another “multi-million” dollar blitz, according to Jeff Sadosky, a spokesman for the Super Pac.
  • (6) 400g cooked or tinned butterbeans 1 tsp ground cumin 10ml lemon juice ¼ clove garlic, peeled and finely minced 1 small handful picked flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped 1 tbsp plain flour (gluten-free flour also works fine) 1 tsp salt 1 egg 1 spring onion, trimmed and finely sliced 50g breadcrumbs 100g feta (or other crumbly goat's or sheep's cheese) Put the butterbeans, cumin, lemon juice, garlic, parsley, flour, salt and egg in a food processor and blitz to a coarse paste: you don't want the mix fully pureed, otherwise the burgers will be too wet and will fall apart on the grill.
  • (7) In the UK, sales of almonds increased by 45% over 2012-13 after a marketing blitz in lifestyle magazines.
  • (8) Taking up his post on Tuesday, Hall is planning a blitz of broadcast interviews, part of a concerted response to accusations that the previous regime was not responsive enough to the media.
  • (9) They then blitzed the series with Apple products "as a thank you".
  • (10) Unions are gearing up for a hospital-organizing blitz, say three attorneys.
  • (11) That is the importance of historical memory in these moments – and of course Britain has the blitz spirit in its DNA: we are people who do not crumble during crisis.
  • (12) I used to see Clinton from Pop Will Eat Itself and Blitz [top Oi combo] on scooter runs; we used to get attacked by bikers in Stourbridge (the Poppies' home town), till we followed Clinton down an alternative safe route."
  • (13) Clarkson and fellow presenters James May and Richard Hammond announced the expansion in a YouTube video on Wednesday, amid a marketing blitz that includes billboards, print, radio and television ads.
  • (14) While Obama has put a large portion of his war chest behind the largest and best oiled ground operation ever seen, Romney and his Super PAC supporters have taken a more conventional approach of blitzing battleground states with largely negative television advertising.
  • (15) Wander Spitalfields market for street food and new and second-hand clothes; or head to vintage stores, such as Blitz and Rokit, for a bigger selection of retro gear.
  • (16) Corroborating a typology of rape proposed 10 years earlier, a recent demographic study of 1,000 incidents of rape concluded that the two predominant types of assault were blitz and confidence rape.
  • (17) The pro-Trump blitz comes despite the real estate mogul’s earlier backing for a ban on assault weapons and longer waiting periods for background checks with gun purchases, ideas that the NRA has rejected.
  • (18) David, no under-achiever himself, remains awed by the fact that his father could have worked for a while in the Blitz clearing houses while "teaching himself English and getting his A levels, and within two years of arriving be at the LSE and then a year after that be in the Royal Navy".
  • (19) Since the riots, when the country veered between its Blitz-spirited best and its give-me-free-trainers-or-tax-breaks worst, a delicate peace has held between Nice Britain and Nasty Britain.
  • (20) When we came to London we finally went to the Blitz , and we thought, “This is it?” Because it was all so manicured and nice.

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